Share memories of growing up with the great music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. My background includes radio and television personality as well as V.P. A&R for A&M Records, where I signed Bryan Adams. In 1997, I began Treasure Island Oldies, the Home of Lost Treasures. I play the biggies, but extensively feature hard to find rare oldies. Listen live Sundays 6 to 10 p.m. Pacific and also the show archives at www.TreasureIslandOldies.com
Let the memories flow!

Monday, February 23, 2015

Congratulations to
the February winner of our 18th
Anniversary Contest. Chris Witmer in
Iowa City, Iowa has won the poster of his choice from TNJ Poster Creations. Chris chose the Dick Clark Productions Tribute Poster – Caravan of Stars Package Rock
& Roll Show. My thanks to you all for entering the contest and remember
having already entered, you are eligible to have your name drawn between March
and December. Once every month during 2015, I will announce the winner for the
month on the show. If you have not entered the contest, Clickthe Celebrate 18 logo on the website for
full contest details. There is No Purchase Necessary to be eligible to win.

We’re only a short time away from our next special, The Name Game, Live Sunday, March 15th. This annual
special is very popular, especially if your first name is also in a song title!
And if you’d like to hear a particular name song, just let me know. You can
call the Listener Line at 206-339-0709
and record your request message or if you’re the shy type, Click the Requests button
on any page of the website.

Is your birthday coming up soon? I’d love to wish you Happy Birthday on the show and also play
Birthday by The Beatles for you. Send the details tobirthdays@treasureislandoldies.com.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog
continues our Tribute to Lesley Gore
with a clip from the legendary concert movie, The T.A.M.I. Show. She performs You
Don’t Own Me.

As part of our tribute to Lesley Gore who passed away last week at age 68 from cancer, I am pleased to present this tremendously talented singer in a clip from the legendary music movie, The T.A.M.I. Show.

Here's Lesley Gore and You Don't Own Me. It's our Song of the Week.

R.I.P. Lesley and thank you so much for such wonderful music you gave to us to enjoy forever.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Lesley
Gore, who was a teenager in the 1960s when she recorded hit songs about
heartbreak and resilience that went on to become feminist touchstones,
died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 68.

Lois Sasson, her partner of 33 years, said Ms. Gore died of lung cancer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

With songs like “It’s My Party,” “Judy’s Turn to Cry” and the indelibly defiant 1964 single “You Don’t Own Me”
— all recorded before she was 18 — Ms. Gore made herself the voice of
teenage girls aggrieved by fickle boyfriends, moving quickly from
tearful self-pity to fierce self-assertion.

“You
Don’t Own Me,” written by John Madara and David White, originally
reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has been repeatedly
rerecorded and revived by performers including Dusty Springfield, Joan
Jett and the cast of the 1996 movie “The First Wives Club.”

“When I heard it for the first time, I thought it had an important humanist quality,” Ms. Gore told The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
in 2010. “As I got older, feminism became more a part of my life and
more a part of our whole awareness, and I could see why people would use
it as a feminist anthem. I don’t care what age you are — whether you’re
16 or 116 — there’s nothing more wonderful than standing on the stage
and shaking your finger and singing, ‘Don’t tell me what to do.’ ”

Ms.
Gore was born Lesley Sue Goldstein on May 2, 1946, in Brooklyn. She
grew up in Tenafly, N.J., eager to become a singer. She had just turned
16, a junior in high school, when her vocal coach had her make some
piano-and-voice recordings. Those demos, with a youthful brightness in
her voice, reached the producer Quincy Jones, who was then an A&R
man at Mercury Records. He became her producer and mentor.

Ms.
Gore recorded “It’s My Party” on March 30, 1963, and when Mr. Jones
discovered that Phil Spector and the Crystals were also recording the
song, he rush-released it within a week. It reached No. 1 and was
followed onto the charts by “Judy’s Turn To Cry” — a sequel to “It’s My
Party” that gets the boyfriend back — and other tales of teen romance
like “She’s a Fool,” “That’s the Way Boys Are” and “Maybe I Know,” as
well as “You Don’t Own Me.”

Ms.
Gore was featured — with James Brown, the Rolling Stones, the Supremes
and Marvin Gaye — in the 1964 concerts at the Santa Monica Civic
Auditorium that were documented as the “T.A.M.I. Show.”
She also had moderate hits with some of the first Marvin Hamlisch songs
to be recorded: “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” in 1965 and
“California Nights” in 1967.

Yet
at the peak of her pop career Ms. Gore was in school full time,
majoring in English and American literature at Sarah Lawrence College in
Bronxville, N.Y., where she graduated in 1968. She played an occasional
television show or concert on weekends or during vacations. “It
would be very foolish of me to leave school to go into such an
unpredictable field on a full-time basis,” she told an interviewer at
the time.

Ms.
Gore’s string of hits ended when girl-group pop gave way to
psychedelia. But she kept performing — in movies, on television, on
theater and club stages. She appeared in the 1960s “Batman” television
series as the Pink Pussycat, one of Catwoman’s sidekicks.

Ms.
Gore did not write her early hits. But after she was dropped by
Mercury, she worked on becoming a songwriter. She moved to California in
1970, and her 1972 album, “Someplace Else Now,” was full of songs she
wrote herself or with the lyricist Ellen Weston.

She
reconnected with Mr. Jones for the 1975 album “Love Me by Name,” also
filled with her own songs and drawing on guest performers including
Herbie Hancock. But it, too, was largely ignored, as was “The Canvas Can
Do Miracles,” an album of versions of 1970s pop hits released in 1982.

“Out Here on My Own,”
a song Ms. Gore wrote with her brother, Michael Gore, for the
soundtrack of the movie “Fame,” became a hit for Irene Cara in 1980 and
was nominated for an Academy Award.

Ms. Gore lived in New York City. Besides Ms. Sasson, she is survived by her brother and her mother, Ronny Gore.

Ms.
Gore returned to New York City in 1980 and continued to sing her oldies
on the nostalgia circuit. She also performed in musical theater,
including a stint in the Broadway production of “Smokey Joe’s Cafe.” She
worked in television, hosting episodes of “In the Life,” a PBS
newsmagazine series about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
In 2005, she came out publicly as gay.

Her
2005 album, “Ever Since,” was full of reflective grown-up songs in
cabaret style, along with a bitterly moody remake of “You Don’t Own Me.”
Television shows picked up some of its tracks: “Better Angels” was
heard on “C.S.I.,” and “Words We Don’t Say” was played on “The L Word.”

Ms. Gore was a headliner in 2011 at “She’s Got The Power,”
a Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert devoted to the girl-group era. In
2012, “You Don’t Own Me” returned during the presidential election, as a
feminist get-out-the-vote video. As it begins, Ms. Gore appears, announcing, “I’m Lesley Gore, and I approve this message.”

In recent years, Ms. Gore had been working on a memoir and a Broadway show based on her life.

You know what they say about contests? You can’t win if you don’t enter.
The Treasure Island Oldies 18th
Anniversary Contest is in full swing and next week on the show I will announce the February winner of the
poster of their choice from TNJ Poster
Creations. If you have not yet entered, do so today. Go to the website and Click the Celebrate 18 logo and follow
the simple instructions. Who knows, I may say your name on the Live show this
Sunday, February 22nd. Good luck and enter the contest today!

Mark your calendar for The Name
Game Special, Live Sunday, March 15th. Every song will have
someone’s name in the song title. So whether it’s Sheila, Tommy, John, Linda, Carrie-Ann, or Bill, you’ll hear some great name songs
on the show.

Just heard the sad news about the passing of Lesley Gore. I will pay tribute to her music on next week’s show
throughout the four hours. She was still young at 68 and apparently died after
a battle with cancer. Our loss is Rock & Roll Heaven’s gain.

If your birthday is coming up soon, please let me know. I’d be pleased
to wish you Happy Birthday on the
show and play Birthday by The Beatles for you. Send the details
to birthdays@treasureislandoldies.com.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog
is playing Scottish singer Lulu in a
clip from the British TV series Ready
Steady Go. It’s her first hit single, Shout,
and it’s our Song of the Week. Enjoy!

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About Me

I love good music - period, but I have a passion for the music of
the '50, '60s and '70s. I started Treasure Island Oldies for two
reasons: I had to get back on the air; I missed radio so much. I also
got tired of hearing "good times and 'eight' oldies", and knew with all
my previous radio programming experience, I could offer a weekly oldies
show that would feature familiar songs but also a lot of "instant
memories", songs you have not heard since they were first played on the
radio for a short time, then disappeared, seemingly forever. I knew
having someone hear a song they have not heard for literally 30 or 40
years, would touch a nerve. Perhaps the memory of a special occasion,
or maybe just another day, that particular song really caught their ear
back then. And every time I play one of those what I call Lost
Treasures, I get immediate individual feedback from the chat room,
email and my blogs. So I play a lot of music heard hardly anywhere
else. Join me live Sundays 6 to 10 p.m. Pacific, and also, the weekly
show archives at www.TreasureIslandOldies.com Let the memories flow!